Cigar-cutter



(No Model.)

1?. 0. MILLER.

CIGAR CUTTER.

Patented Jan. 15, 1889.

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FREDRICK O. MILLER, OF NEIVPORT, KENTUCKY.

CIGAR-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION for1nln part of Letters Patent Ks. 396,339, dated January 15, 1889.

Application filed June 26, 1888. Serial No. 278,230. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDRICK O. MILLER,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Newport, Campbell county, Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigar-Cutters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to devices for cutting off the butt-ends of cigars, and has forits object to accommodate all sizes and shapes of cigars without cutting them unevenly and breaking or otherwise disfiguring the cigar.

To this end my invention consists in certain features of novelty,to be hereinafter fully described, and then particularly pointed out in the claims.

I11 order that my invention may be fully understood, I will now proceed to describe my invention with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure I is a plan view of my cigar-cutter; Fig. II, an end view. Fig. III is a similar view with the carrier of the upper cutter removed. Fig. IV is a View of the inner side of the upper-cutter carrier, showing the upper cutter.

The operating and cutting devices are mounted on a suitable frame, 1, provided with suitable means for attachment to a cigarboard; but it also may form a cutter detached from a cigar-board. This frame has a longitudinal groove, 2, an adjustable gage, 3, and a removable lower-cutter plate, 4. This cutter-plate at is of the form shown in Fig. III, and has at its sides concave cutting-edges 5, the curves of which are of different radii, as shown. One end of this plate is provided with a rounded notch or open slot, 6, while the other end is provided with a slot, 7, c0ncentric with notch 6.

S is the upper-cutter carrier having an axis, 9, occupying a sleeve, 10, forming part of the frame.

11 is a s iral s )rin surrodndin said sleeve 6 D and held between a cap, 12, on the axis 9 and a bearing, 13, provided on the end of the frame, and having a tendency to throw the carrier 8 up to the position shown in Fig. II.

The rounded notched end of the lower-cutter plate, 4, has bearing against the axis 9 of the upper-cutter carrier, and when the plate 4 is adjusted either up or down,which is permitted by the set-screw 14, having a milled or knurled head, 15, the plate swings on the axis 9 as a pivot. This setscrew passes through the slot 7 in the plate and guides the latter in its adjustment. ried by the member 8 and traveling in' a groove, 17, concentric with the axis 9, (see Fig. 1H,) limits the upward movement of the carrier S.

18 is the upper-cutter blade made with a number of concave cuttingedges, 19, the curves of which are of different radii and having a number of holes, 20, surrounding a central perforation, 21. The latter fits over the stud 16 of the carrier 8, and any one of the holes 20 may be placed over a teat, 22, so that any desired one of the concave cuttingedges may be placed in position to operate in connection with the lower cutter for cutting of a cigar.

The object of making the lower-cutter blade adjustable is to permit the cutting off of the ends of different shapes and sizes of cigars squarely without breaking the Wrapper. As cigars are shapedsome straight and others bulged out, forming a contracted butt-this feature is very important.

WVhen a cigar shaped as shown in dotted lines is to be cut, it is laid in the groove in the frame 1 and the lower adjustable cutting edge is brought up to the cigar, as indicated in Fig. II, so that it forms a support for the tuck end of the cigar,which avoids the breaking off of the wrapper, and the upper cutter when brought down cuts it squarely.

The lower adjustable cutter is made reversible to present an additional sharp cuttingedge when one is dull, and the curves of one of these cutting-edges are of less radius than the other, as shown, to cut smaller cigars.

The upper-cutter plate has a number of concave cutting-edges, the curves of which are of different radii, as described, so that it may be adapted to the cutting-edges of the lower-cutter plate.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A cigar-cutter constructed With a grooved bed or support for the cigar, an upper cut A stud, 16, car

ting-blade and a lower concave blade having means of vertical adjustment relatively to the bed, to adapt it to cigars of dilierent taper, substantially as set forth.

2. A cigar-cutter constructed with a grooved bed orsupport for the cigar and apair of cutting-blades having concave edges, and the lower blade having means of vertical adj ust- 1n ent relatively to the bed, to adapt it to cigars of different taper, substantially as set forth. A

3. In a cigar-cutter, the combination, with the upper cutter and carrier on which it is mounted, the lower cutter having a notch at one end and a slot concentric with said notch near the other end, and a screw occupying said slot, substantially as set forth.

at. In a cigar-cutter, the combination of the upper movable vertical cutter and the lower reversible vertical cutter having concave knili'e-edges on opposite sides, the curves of which are of different radii, whereby different edges may be used for different-sized cigars, and for the purpose set forth.

5. In a cigar-cutter, the combination of the upper movable vertical cutter having concave knife-edges the curves of which are of different radii, and the lower reversible vertical cutter having concave knife-edges on opposite sides, the curves of which are of different radii, whereby different edges may be used for different-sized cigars, substantially as shown and described.

0. In a cigar-cutter, the combination, with the upper-cutter carrier on which it is mounted, and axis of the carrier, of the lower-cutter plate having a notch at one end bearing against said axis, and means for adjustment at the other end, substantially as set forth.

FREDRICK C. MILLER.

\Vitnesscs:

FRANK O. MILLER, NAPOLEON DUBRUL. 

